Finance and Investments

Current Trends Are Not Sustainable

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Current Trends Are Not Sustainable

Current Trends Are Not Sustainable

This graph shows Government spending, expressed as a percent of GDP, in ten-year intervals for 1970 to 2080. The chart also shows Government receipts, expressed as a percent of GDP, as a line from 1970 to 2080.

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UK urged to prevent vulture funds preying on world's poorest countries

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Greg Palast, Maggie O'Kane and Chavala Madlena
Vultures eat the eggs of sea turtles. Photograph: Yuri Cortez/AFP/Getty Images
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Campaigners demand Jersey legal loophole be closed as financiers seek $100m from the DRC

Britain is being urged to help close down a legal loophole that lets financiers known as "vulture funds" use courts in Jersey to claim hundreds of millions of pounds from the world's poorest countries.

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Green growth

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Schumpeter
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THE enrichment of previously poor countries is the most inspiring development of our time. It is also worrying. The environment is already under strain. What will happen when the global population rises from 7 billion today to 9.3 billion in 2050, as demographers expect, and a growing proportion of these people can afford goods that were once reserved for the elite? Can the planet support so much economic activity?

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Urgent Investment In Renewables Needed

Urgent Investment In Renewables Needed
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PARIS -- A fundamental change is needed in power generation, with a greater and more urgent investment required in renewables used in all industries, including the metals sector, an executive at the International Energy Agency said Thursday.

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Pathways to Sustainabaility WBCSD

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Vision 2050:  The new agenda for business

Under the WBCSD's Vsion 2050 Project, twenty-nice WBCDSD member companies developed a vision of a world well on the way to sustainablility by 2050 and the pathways leading to that world.

This mural is a basis for visualizing the possible pathways.  The mural is meant to provide a tool for strategic planning, prioritizing, and monitoring progeress to help countires, businesses, NGOs , international organization and individuals assess the degree to which we are on track to accomplishing the vision.

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